She played piano for a little while several years ago. She did okay with the piano and seemed to pick it up okay. Since then, she has had little to no interest in musical instruments.

She is in the public school orchestra. If I remember correctly, they assign the instrument and it has to stay at the school. She is not able to bring it home to practice.

Just trying to help save you some money.

Those would be so good if you tore all the meat off the bones, drizzled turkey stock on it, and heated it in the oven with leftover stuffing and mashed potatoes. :)

I sincerely appreciate the assistance.

Yamaha has a pretty good reputation for musical instruments. Good value.

Knowing the history of the Cowboys as I do, I wouldn't have immediately jumped to the conclusion that "white powdery substance" was a form of winter precipitation. ;)

Not that it's at all the same thing, but I used to be a decent guitarist. When I decided to buy an electric acoustic, I specifically went to the shop and just played whatever was around 5-600 bucks and was looking for the particular sound I liked. I happened to pick up a Yamaha and it sounded pretty amazing. Only 200 bucks. It's the only good guitar I still have, even though I never touch it.

And since [MENTION=303015]Mumonkan[/MENTION] brought up bass/treble clef music, it suddenly occured to me that I have no idea WHY they had to be different. I used to read both because I would switch between stuff in high school, particularly in jazz band, but why exactly did they require them to be different? What is the point? If it were a score with several parts, couldn't you just label the bars at the front of the piece without having to rearrange where the notes land? Is there some French or Italian guy I should be angry at for starting that convention?

Again, having grown up in the DFW area, my mind immediately went there when reading that joke. :lol:

Well, the stupidity is back on. I toyed around with some ideas and it looks like I may have negotiated a trade for a 1993 Specialized Hardrock Ultra. I'll go look at it Saturday.

These would be awesome with some baked beans with bourbon in them- whether Bush's or home-made- and some red-skinned potato salad.

Everybody is entitled to one youthful mistake. :(

Let he who is without sin . . . .

I'd forgotten exactly which of the Cowboys it was, but I distinctly remembered reading in the autobiography of one of them that he had mixed cocaine with water and secreted it inside a Vicks inhaler that he usually carried onto the field. I looked it up and it was Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson and he vividly describes- in his book "Out of Control"- "taking a couple of major snorts" in front of the 80,000 fans inside the Orange Bowl as well as the "200 million" who were watching on TV. (That was during Super Bowl XIII which the Cowboys lost to the Steelers.) I highly recommend this book for its "inside baseball" look at football and especially the Cowboys. I haven't read his second book "In Control".

Those were the days.

...I'm not certain what instruments youi played, but when trying to sight read accordion music while playing the thing, were the bass and treble clef conventions not used, it wouild be very confusing, if not impossible, to read and play both parts simultaneously, as is required on that instrument.

Likewise organ, and to some extent the piano. I guess it depends on how many different parts you're trying to squeeze out of the one instrument.

Yamaha had the lock on quality for the price for a long time, and made all their stringed stuff in Japan. I think a lot of the lesser production has been offshored to other places in Asia now. I'm pretty sure some of their better spruce for guitar fronts still comes from old growth trees from here, though. I don't know jack about violas, except I like the sound of a string quartet.

And back. What'd I miss?

There are a few here. Not pointing the finger, but the UL thread in Touring should give you a clue.

Yeah, been a pretty good start to this month's festive season thread.

Woo new month, new miles!!

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If you have quoted my comment, please edit the quote so that no one gets upset.

Sincerely,

BSY

Stupid rain cancels my club ride. Gonna try to sneak in a short solo ride on the rain bike.

PCAD dropped by to say hi.

Billy was on vacation (literally) and forgot to lock the ol' thread, so (naturally) the Cowboys got ragged on all morning long.

Im back! Apparently I missed some rain, and clipless pedals?!

Who are you?

I'm pretty sure the different clefs have to do with the range of the instruments. Mrs. rjones28 could give a good answer, if she were here. She's a professional musician with degrees and everything.